Modern Art
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Saltimbanque
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Saltimbanque
Lithograph from 1946.
Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm
Publisher: Pantheon.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure shipment.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Montmartre, A La gloire à Paris, Charles Camoin
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
The Battery and Castle Garden
Located in Middletown, NY
Society of Iconophiles, 1898.
Lithograph on brown wove paper, 10 x 7 1/2 inches (253 x 190 mm), full margins. In good condition with some age tone and the lower left corner dog-eare...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Finely Drawn, 1946 Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn, 1946 Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A beautifully executed and introspective charcoal portrait drawing o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
"6th Avenue El"
12 1/4 x 14 1/4
Oil on canvas board, c. 1940s
Signed lower righ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
In full swing n°2 by John Torcapel - Gouache on paper 37x25 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
Femme Cheval
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam
“Femme Cheval” 1971
Pastel on paper
24 x 18 in
Signed and dated at the bottom left corner
Provenance:
Gallerry Dobbelhoef, Kessel.
Private Collection, Brussel.
Campo and...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Plate 6, from Derriere Le Miroir #173
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Plate 6
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #173
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1968
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Sheet Size: 15" x 11"
Image...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Wheelbarrow Race
Located in Storrs, CT
1925-26. Drypoint. Appleby 114. 8 9/16 x 12 (sheet 12 x 17). Edition 100, #10. An excellent impression with burr, printed with plate tone on the full sheet of 'VGI' laid paper with ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Faces - Linocut Print by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Faces is a linocut realized by Mino Maccari in the 1940s.
50 x 30 cm.
Handisigned in the lower right part. Edition of 12 copies.
Reference; Cat. Meloni , pag 367, n.1741.
Good c...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Linocut
17th Gran Premio di San Marino Formula 1 original racing poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 17th Grand Prix of San Marino vintage Italian poster. Gran Premio di San Marino.
Artist: Giovanni Cremonini. Larger format race poster. Linen backed and ready to frame.
This original poster advertises the 17th Grand Prix in San Marino. This is a great poster for Ferrari enthusiasts. Archival is mounted on acid-free paper bonded to linen canvas.
The San Marino Grand Prix (Italian: Gran Premio di San Marino) was a Formula One championship race that was run at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Original Avenge December 7th vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Avenge December 7th vintage poster. Linen backed; excellent condition. Artist: Bernard Perlin. Office of War Information, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-491978
Dramatic original World War II poster depicting a sailor with his fist raised, standing above a scene of an exploding battleship, with the words “Avenge December 7” in red across the middle of the poster. The striking image on OWI “Poster No. 15,” memorializing the events of December 7, 1941, was created by artist Bernard Perlin.
U. S. Government Printing Office. Year: 1942
As a Life Magazine war art correspondent living in Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, Perlin continued to document social change uniquely. An American painter primarily known for creating many American posters during WWII and for magic realism...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Flood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 10 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Crayon, Paper
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Frederick Buchholz (1901-1983)
WW2 Aircraft Factory
18 x 24 inches
Oil ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Nude Portrait by Arthur Smith WPA Artist
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled, 20th century
Oil on wood panel
23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.
Framed: 29 x 25 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left: A Smith
Arthur Smith is a listed Ameri...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Composition, Les Peintres mes amis, Kees van Dongen
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Melancholic Muses V
Located in London, GB
'Melancholic Muses V', one of a poignant set of six signed artist proof lithographs by the celebrated Spanish artist from Barcelona, Vicenç Caraltó (circa 1960s). This collection of ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage American Modernist Adirondack Mountain Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 35 by 47 inches overall and 27 by 39 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Unique Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Gold Leaf Modernist Edition
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a unique mixed media edition of 50. on handmade paper with fabric, gold and other elements. Raised and educated in New York, Pat Hammerman is an ...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media
An Avant-Garde, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Female Figure Study by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dynamic, Avant-Garde, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Female Figure Study by Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A striking, black & white figural studio ink drawing on paper depicting an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Virgin Islands Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Inez McCombs (1895-1975).
Virgin Islands, ca. 1950.
Alkyd on paper mounted to masonite panel.
Measuring 13 x 16 inches; 18 x 21 inches framed.
Signed lower right.
Philadelphia-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Alkyd
Braque, Oiseaux, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, The Intimate Sketchbooks of G...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Seating Figures - Oil Painting by Antonio Mellone - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Seating figures is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Mellone in 1957
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Thinker - Drawing - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Thinker is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in late 19th century
Ink and watercolor on paper
Good condition.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado, From Underneath
By Christo
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Christo
Title: Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado, From Underneath
Medium: Offset lithograph
Date: 1993
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 32 1/4" x 25 1/2...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Still life flowers roses oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Lafuente - Flowers - Oil on canvas
Spanish school signed "Lafuente".
Oil measures 61x50 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reeds 8 July 11:56 - Modern Nature Oil Painting, Abstract, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Bateau Lavoir (The Laundry Boat)
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Le Bateau Lavoir (The Laundry Boat)
Year: 1969
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 73/75
Numbered 73/75 in pencil, lower margin ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ballerina - Oil Painting by Miloslava Vrbova - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Painting on panel realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century, depicting an elegant reclyned ballerina.
Hand signed.
Good condition, framed.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Battle Ships at Sea Naval Engagement Signed British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Battle at Sea
by Gordon Wood Armstrong (British late 20th century)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 23 x 29 inches
board: 18 x 24 inches
provenance: pr...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Woman - Drawing by Maximilien Luce - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an artwork realized by Maximilien Luce in the Early 20th Century.
Pencil drawing.
In good conditions.
Hand-Signed.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Pencil
Gridded, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Modern Art
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Glass Sculpture
Artist: Karo Martirosyan,
Work: Original Artwork,
Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture,
Year: 2022
Style: Contemporary Art,
Subject: Gridded,
Size: 30" x 4...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Metal
View of Venice - Etching by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th Century.
Edition of 16.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Excellent condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Föhn Wind Weather by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on Canvas 38x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernest Voegeli is an artist who has found his path through a combination of solid technique and a clear, insightful approach to color, form, and composition. While his work is primar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude with Tropical Animals - Oil Painting on Canvas by A. Feltrinelli - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude with Tropical Animals is a beautiful and impressive oil on canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli.
It was realized between the end of the 1920s and the b...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Chillida, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 174, 1968. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; print...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Dramatic and dynamic fantasy scene by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This piece depicts a warrior atop a...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
'Cargo Carriers' — New York Harbor
By Otto Kuhler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Otto Kuhler, 'Cargo Carriers', etching and drypoint, c. 1932, edition 10, Kennedy 44. Signed in pencil. A superb, atmospheric impression with rich burr and selectively wiped overall plate tone, in dark brown ink, on Arches cream laid paper; wide margins (2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Original Kennedy Galleries mat and label. Scarce.
"On my trips up and down N.Y. harbor on the Weehawken Ferry, the late evening sun playing on the side of the big liners has always intrigued me... The liner shown I believe to be the Vaterland of the North German Lloyd...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
"Bob Marley" by Michael Ochs Archives
Located in London, GB
"Bob Marley" by Michael Ochs Archives
Bob Marley Los Angeles 1979.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16"x 12'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
The Profile - Drawing - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in late 19th century
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Handwritten note below; Session of the Institute of August 5, 71....
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Sophia Loren Pouring Champagne in Glasses - Oversize Print
Located in London, GB
Sophia Loren Pouring Champagne in Glasses
by Globe Photos
A classic 1962 image featuring legendary Italian film actress Sophia Loren pouring champagne into fancy glasses on New Yea...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mid Century Modern Vintage Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Barn by Country Road
Located in Bristol, GB
BARN BY COUNTRY ROAD
Size: 36 x 44 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A charming mid-century modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto board.
The painting captures a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Horse : Polo Game - Original Lithograph, HANDSIGNED & Ltd /100
Located in Paris, IDF
Vincent HADDELSEY (1934-2010)
Horse : Polo Game, 1974
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 100
On Arches vellum 53 x 38 cm (c. 23 x 15 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
2008 Antoine de Saint Exupery 'Petit Prince at the well'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition color lithograph, titled Le Petit Prince Fetching Water, beautifully recreates the iconic watercolors from the beloved book Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-E...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Amoureux- From the Album "Jean Cocteau Lithographies" by Jean Cocteau
By Jean Cocteau
Located in New York, NY
The modern lithograph "Les Amoureux" by Jean Cocteau was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in 1957. Cocteau was a master at representing the languid forms of his subjects in sketches. H...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antoni Costa 7 Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting. frame
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD....
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Paint, Rice Paper
Bell Tower by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on Paper - 17x22 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Nude Woman - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
He was born in Mila...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" bronze sculpture of seated female figure by artist Felipe Castañeda
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" bronze sculpture of a female nude by artist Felipe Castañeda. Inscribed F. Castañeda 1984 P/A on base.
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Bronze
Pablo Picasso, "Lozenge with Mask", ceramic, clay
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This hexagonal tile, created by Pablo Picasso in 1956, is made of chamotted red earthenware clay and has decoration in engobes in black and white. It is from the edition of 350, num...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Still life with Blue Pitcher and Fruits - Lithograph and Stencil, 1950
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand LÉGER
Still life with Blue Pitcher and Fruits, c. 1950
Original lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 43 x 33 cm (c. 17 x 13 Inc...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Antique American Realist Framed Flower Jug Still Life Oil Painting Yellow Roses
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive antique American flower still life oil painting.
Stunning and unique original frame.
Oil on canvas.
Painting size, 18H by 14L.
Exceptional quality. Signe...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
December 1926: Schoolchildren posting letters in the playground of the Red Lion Street School.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
Cocteau, Composition, Taureaux (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau, 1965. ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Patrick O'Neill
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 35 x 25 inches
A beautiful colourful ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Flowers in a Black Pitcher by Louis Henri Salzmann - Oil on Canvas - 54x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Louis Henri Salzmann was a Swiss painter active during the first half of the 20th century. Born in 1887 and passing away in 1955, Salzmann is known for his landscape paintings and st...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
People on the beach in Miami, Florida, USA 1960s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Black and white Print by Erich Andres, ca 1960.
A vibrant scene from Miami Beach, Florida, captured in the 1960s, showcasing a bustling daytime view of the sandy shores crowded with ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
Edward, My Son (with Deborah Kerr) (20% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Spencer Tracy & Deborah Kerr
Edward, My Son
Black & White Photograph on Photographic Paper
Year: 1949
Size: 6.5 x 8 inches (16.51 x 20.32 cm)
Stamped verso
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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